The main dome
45 m high and 27 m across.
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Sharjah Mosque, also called the Sharjah Grand Mosque, is the emirate's largest, standing in Al Tay on the city's edge where Emirates Road meets Mleiha Road. It covers some 186,000 m² with its gardens and holds over 25,000 worshippers: more than 5,000 in the prayer hall, including 610 women, over 6,000 in the porticoes and 13,500 in the open courtyard. Built over five years from 2014 for 300 million dirhams, to the vision of the Ruler, Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, it was inaugurated by him on 10 May 2019, the first Friday of Ramadan. Its design recalls classical Ottoman mosques such as Istanbul's Sultan Ahmed Mosque. It has 81 domes, the main one 45 m high and 27 m across, and two 75 m minarets. Gardens with fountains and waterfalls surround it. White marble columns greet visitors inside, and the prayer hall has arched stained-glass windows, Quranic verses on its walls and a great chandelier above a red carpet. A collection hall shows Qurans and antiques from different Islamic eras; there are also a library, a gift shop and a cafeteria. Non-Muslims are welcome, with their own routes and spaces. The mosque lies about 19 km south-east of central Sharjah as the crow flies, roughly a 20-minute drive or taxi ride; parking holds some 2,260 vehicles. Allow 45 to 90 minutes, avoiding the summer midday heat. Sharjah Fort (Al Hisn) and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization lie about 23 km north-west, and the Mleiha Archaeological Centre about 32 km east-south-east, as the crow flies.
45 m high and 27 m across.
Stained glass, Quranic verses, a great chandelier.
Qurans and antiques from different Islamic eras.
Al Tay, at the junction of Emirates Road and Mleiha Road, Sharjah
Yes: it has eight lifts, and 100 wheelchairs for the elderly and the sick are kept in its outdoor areas. Sharjah's official tourism blog describes it as easy to get around throughout.
Yes: the Central Bank of the UAE issued a gold and a silver commemorative coin, each 60 g and 60 mm across, designed by Sharjah Islamic Bank. Both bear words of verse 18 of Surat At-Tawbah, on those who tend the mosques of God, in Thuluth script, the silver one at greater length.